Thesaurus: oblate

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1. a. Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
2. a. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
3. a. One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
4. a. One of the Oblati.
5. adj. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
6. n. a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
7. 1. (Geom.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. 2. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. Oblate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid. (a) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. (b) One of the Oblati.
8. Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblatespheroid.
9. n:100 n. a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life a. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles